Historical European Biographies
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Shotter, David; [David Shotter]
7 TIBERIUS AND THE EMPIRE Shortly before Augustus’ death in AD 14 he had allegedly instructed his successor not to engage in imperialist adventures but to retain the empire within ...
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Rome
February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Selina Todd
9 Happy Ever After On 4 March 1964 Shelagh gave birth to Charlotte Jo Delaney in a private nursing home. Journalists were waiting when she returned to the fourth-floor flat ...
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Movements & Periods
February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-22 | Author:Jaume, Lucien, Goldhammer, Arthur
Yet the same brutal amour-propre becomes marvelously supple through intelligent calculation, or, as Helvétius and later Tocqueville would put it, through self-interest properly understood: “One gives in order to get. ...
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History & Theory
February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Light
* I so much associated Jewishness with food that I was taken aback when Raphael announced, before we first visited his mother, that she could not cook. After the breakdown ...
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Communism & Socialism
February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:John Kendrick Bangs
CHAPTER VII: THE 19TH BRUMAIRE - CONSUL - THE TUILERIES - CAROLINE 1799 "There is no question about my greatness now," said Napoleon, as he meditated upon his position. "Even ...
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Historical European Biographies
February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-13 | Author:Peter Kerr
The dog never moved a muscle. 'Perro – isn't that an unusual name for a perro?' I suggested, breaking the silence. 'You know – a dog called Dog?' 'Unusual? Certainly ...
( Category:
Historical European Biographies
February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-10 | Author:Angus Konstam
The battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801 As dawn broke on the morning of 2 April Nelson must have been relieved that no such bombardment had taken place, and that ...
( Category:
Military
February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Goss [Chris Goss]
At the end of July 1942, he was posted to the Eastern Front, his last victory with II./JG 26 being his eighty-third, on 20 June 1942. He was posted to ...
( Category:
World War II
February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Cooper [Cooper, Matt]
CHAPTER TWO DIALLING UP THE NUMBERS FOR EIRCOM Although he had INM, Waterford Wedgwood, Arcon, Fitzwilton and other businesses demanding his attention, O’Reilly was still keen for something else to ...
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Business
February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Stafford
S U M M E R ELEVEN ‘WHERE ARE WE GOING IN EUROPE?’ Ireland was burning, the miners were striking, and the dole queues lengthening. But the annual rituals of ...
( Category:
U.K. Prime Ministers
February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Philip Mansel [Mansel, Philip]
18 France against Europe ‘Ultima ratio regum’, ‘The final argument of kings’, was the motto often inscribed on Louis XIV’s massive bronze cannon, below the royal crown and coat of ...
( Category:
Royalty
February 16,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Fouracre, Paul. [Paul Fouracre]
Central and northern Germany Central and northern Germany are the areas we know least about in the age of Charles Martel, and again the reason for our ignorance is that ...
( Category:
Religious
February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Hösle, Vittorio; Hittinger, Francis R.;
3.8 THE BARBARISM OF REFLECTION AND THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATIONS Nowhere does Vico so decisively depart from his time and from its optimistic faith in progress than he does in ...
( Category:
Social Philosophy
February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Tindall
I have already mentioned that the decorative plate, valued and preserved in the Camp-Montague household because some forgotten forebear had once given it to another, looks like a ‘fairing’ from ...
( Category:
Memoirs
February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Roberts
Period Two – 1 October 1942–31 December 1942 at 15 per day 1,170 Period Three – January–June 1943 at 30 per day 4,680 Period Four – July–31 December 1943, twenty-four ...
( Category:
World War II
February 15,2020 )
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